Neverware CloudReady: Office 365 Education Edition

[Arthur]

This is Chromium OS, but with Microsoft apps instead.

 

Website / Download (Free trial)

 

CloudReady: Office 365 Education Edition is a browser-based OS that transforms your hardware into secure, easily manageable machines featuring out-of-the-box integrations with Microsoft OneDrive and online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.

 

 

[Bob_the_Goon]

@Arthur - do you use this solution?

[Arthur]

do you use this solution?

Nope. I only just found out about it today.

[snagrat]

Be interesting to see how SSO works with it

[Danp]

Installing the Home version on an old Macbook now.

[ModeratelyGruntled]

I like the concept and would like to give it a try - though $15 per device per year doesn't sound like particularly good value.

[gshaw]

Wow someone has actually gone out and done it, best of both worlds for Office 365 users. Pricing doesn't look too clever though.

 

That said if you pin the Microsoft apps via Chrome Policy and have SSO on your O365 and Google tenancies you could get a similar effect

Edited March 21, 2017 by gshaw

[Arthur]

$15 per device per year doesn't sound like particularly good value.

The one-off fee of $59 (~£47) per device might work out cheaper in the long run? That's $11.80 (£9.40) per year spread over five years.

[Michael]

The District-Wide Site License model looks interesting at $1 per pupil, per year, unlimited devices. At this price, it would work for a Primary.

[mjk]

Looks like microsoft have broken this already:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/23/microsoft_onedrive_linux_slow/

[Arthur]

Looks like microsoft have broken this already:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/23/microsoft_onedrive_linux_slow/

That bug has been fixed now...

 

https://www.onmsft.com/news/the-bug-causing-onedrive-to-run-slowly-on-linux-has-been-fixed-says-microsoft

[mjk]

I may have been cut by Hanlon's Razor; attributing malice to something that can be explained by stupidity.

It seems amazing that a company that large could not properly test one of their products, but there you go. I'm glad they fixed this!